Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
JAMES JOYCEPeople trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
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